Porsche Classic - Cruising

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What ensued was an exciting encounter with an extraordinary person who makes his professional and private dreams a reality. Just a few hours later, he sent the cruise ship “Europa” off on a world tour of more than 74,000 nautical miles.

Douglas Ward is the author of the “Berlitz Cruise Guide”. The newest edition of this bible of the cruise industry has just been released. Ward considers the “Europa 2” and the “Europa” to be the best cruise ships in the world. He says this yet again. They are the only passenger ships to be honoured with a “Five-Star-Plus” rating by the “Berlitz Cruise Guide”. They belong to the venerable Hamburg shipping company Hapag-Lloyd Cruises. Its boss is – in private life – a racing driver. #karljpojer, born 1954, is professional globetrotter. We have whisked him away, briefly enticed away from his job, for a quick spin in a 1997 993 Cabriolet. Because we had heard a lot about #karljpojer and wanted to finally know what he is like, this manager who races – the fastest “cruiser” in the world.

This man dreamed even as a boy of having his own Porsche

It is August 26, 2016. A day on which events are coming thick and fast for Hapag-Lloyd. The multilingual Pojer therefore apologises before we have even got started: “I’m afraid I’m running a bit late, but we’ve just set a milestone in the history of Hapag-Lloyd and signed the construction contracts for two new expedition ships.” In 2019, they should put to sea and bring travellers to the most fascinating patches on Earth; Hapag-Lloyd already does this successfully today with the expedition ships “Hanseatic” and “Bremen”. This man, who even as a boy dreamed of having his own Porsche, who battled it out for pole position in the Formula Ford with Michael Schuhmacher and the Formula Opel Lotus with the likes of David Coulthard, and who has just wrapped up an investment of millions, stands beside us totally relaxed.